Never shall a young man, Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear, Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.

Persecution may wear an insulting face. Insults may come as a result of a Christian’s lifestyle, which should be different from that of the secular world.

There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.

Success is not random.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

The most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself.